Savings bank



y A. c. GRUNWALD I 2,087,058

SAVING S BANK Filed April 27, 19:55

Patented July 13, 1937 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE SAVINGS BANK Application April 27, 1935, Serial No. 18,602

2 Claims.

This invention relates particularly to bookform savings banks: and the primary object is to provide an extremely simple device of this character which is reasonably reliable in con- 5. struction and which can be manufactured very cheaply.

The invention is illustrated in a preferred embodiment in the accompanying drawing, in

which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a book-form savings bank embodying the invention; Fig. 2, a broken perspective view, the pivoted member of the closure being shown in open position; Fig. 3, an inner perspective view of the pivoted member of the closure. shown detached; Fig. 4, a perspective view of a bent wire form slot guard employed; Fig. 5, a broken vertical sectional view on an enlarged scale. the section being taken as indicated at line 5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6, a perspective view of a p1ate-like locking bolt employed; and Fig. 7, a broken sectional View taken as indicated at line 1 of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment illustrated, A designates a casing simulating the back and sides of a bookcover, the back being designated I and the sides being designated 2; and B, a U-form closure interposed between the sides 2 near the edges thereof, saidclosure simulating the edges of the leaves of a book.

The casing A preferably is formed from thingauge sheet metal which is suitably blanked and formed to simulate the body of a book. The edge-portions at the ends of the back I are folded inwardly so as to lie against the inner surfaces of the margins of the back, as indicated at l and at one end of the back, the inwardly folded part I is made of sufiicient length to permit the extremity of the metal to be bent forwardly to provide a locking-flange, as indicated at l The edge-portions of the sides 2 are bent inwardly and flattened against the inner walls of the sides, as indicated at 2 The casing A, thus formed, may have applied to its outer surface a stippled coating of any desired color, simulating, for example, the cloth covering of a book.

The closure B preferably comprises an angleform portion B which is rigidly secured between 50 the sides of the casing, and a pivoted portion B which is adapted to be locked in the closed position shown in Fig. 1, or unlocked and thrown to the open position shown in Fig. 2.

The angle-form portion B of the closure preferably is a channel-member which has V-shaped notches cut in the flanges thereof, which, after the portions are bent to a position at right angles to each other. forms a joint as indicated at 3. The longitudinal portion of the member B is designated 3 and the portion which forms 5 an end-member is designated 3 Theweb-portion of the channel is designated 4, and the flanges are designated 4. The flanges may be spot-welded to the side walls of the casing A. Thus, spot-weldings are indicated at the points 5. It Will be understood that any impression which may be made in the side walls of the casing, due to the spot-welding, may be hidden by the external coating applied to the casing.

The upper end-portion of the member 3 preferably is curved rearwardly, as indicated at 3; and the web of the rearwardly bent end-portion of the member is provided with a pivot-eye 3 The pivoted section B of the closure preferably is a channel-member whose web-portion is 20 designated 6 and whose flanges are designated B At one end the web is provided with pivoteyes 6 which are connected with the pivot-eye 3 by a pintle "I.

At the other end. the closure-section B is 25 equipped with a lock 8, a detail of which is shown in Fig. 5. The lock comprises a housingplate 8 having an end-wall 8 at one end, spacing lugs 3 at the other end, and having reversely turned lateral flanges a which are spotwelded, as indicated at 8 to the flanges 6 of the channel forming the member B a platelike bolt 9 slidably confined between the housing-plate 8 and the web 6; and a spring l0 tending normally to project the bolt. 35

The web 6 and the plate 8 are provided with registering key-receiving perforations II.

The bolt 9, as preferably formed, is shown in perspective in Fig. 6. It has a body-portion 9 which lies against the inner surface of the web 6, and has spacing lugs 9 a key-engaging lug 9 and a spring-engaging lug 9 At its front edge, the plate 9 is provided with a projecting portion 9 which is bent backwardly, this member being suitably formed to serve as a lockingmember which engages the locking-member l as shown in Fig. 5.

A key l2 (Fig. 2) serves to unlock the member B and withdraw it to the open position.

The web 6 is provided with a coin-slot [3 which extends longitudinally of the web. The slot is guarded by a bent-wire slot-guard M which has portions l4 engaged by clenchinglugs l5 struck from one of the flanges 6*, these portions being anchored against the inner sur- 55 face of the web 6 and confined snugly in. the corner constituting a junction between the web and flange.

The guard M has projecting tongues M which extend across the coin-slot; and the extremities of the wire are bent to form projections Hl' extending laterally across the web and anchored thereto by clenching-lugs l6 formed from metal struck from the web 6 at the ends of the coinslot l3.

One of the fianges 6 of the member B is equipped with a limit-guard H which projects in- Wardly from the flange and is spaced a short distance from the inner surface of the web 6. The guard ll preferably is formed by shearing the metal of the flange and bending the metal between the points of shearing inwardly, as will be readily understood from Figs. 3 and 7. The function of the guard is to limit the downward swing of the tongues 16* of the slot guard and thus aid in preventing coins from being fished from the savings bank. A further function is to lessen the liability of the slot-guard being injured or dislodged by the insertion of an instrument through the slot-guard.

The construction described is strong, reasonably durable and reliable, and can be manufactured at a price so low as to place the device within the reach of popular demand.

Preferably, the casing A is formed of sheet steel, and the closure B, likewise, is formed of sheet steel. The outer surface of the closure and the projecting inner margins of the sides of the casing may be gilded to correspond with the gilded margins and leaf-edges of a book.

What I regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A savings bank comprising a casing of U- form cross-section simulating the back and sides of a book-cover; a closure between said sides near the edges thereof and simulating the edges of the leaves of a book, said closure having a wall provided with a coin-slot and having a limit-guard spaced from said wall; and a bent-wire-guard interposed between said limit-guard and said wall and anchored to said wall and having tongues extending across said coin-slot and normally engaging the inner surface of said wall, said tongues being adapted to swing inwardly away from said wall upon insertion of a coin and being of sufficient length to be limited in swing by said limitguard. 21

2. A savings bank as specified in claim 1, in which the closure comprises a channel and in which the coin-slot is in the web of said channel and said limit-guard is an inwardly projecting portion of one flange of said channel and in which the anchoring means for said slot guard comprises inwardly projecting portions of said flange.

ALBERT C. GRUNWALD. 

